Thing 3-Flickr

There are so many ways now to share images with friends and family. teh days of trying to email them or send them a disk are over! Thank goodness! Flickr is a tool that allows you to create albums and upload pictures to share. You can shoose to make them private or public which I really like. I can also choose if I want to let friends and family see them which I also like.
Here is my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenstephanie80/?saved=1
This is really easy to use and even has a place at the bottom where you can edit pictures. All pictures can be tagged and descriptions can be written.

Thing 5: Image Generators

This was created using Big Huge Labs Warholizer. It was fun to play with and is a neat tool to change up pictures and would be fun for a digital scrapbooker! Big Huge Labs has so many neat toys!!! I spent a lot of time trying out each one. I am a scrapbooker so I had fun with tools that worked with pictures I already have! The comic strips you can create here were fun too but I am just not creative enough for them!!! I am working on it though. I think they would be fun to display for book recommendations.

Thing 4: More flickr

I created this using spell with Flickr. It is fun to change the letters. (Which can easily be done by clicking on each letter when you are creating it.)
I looked at colr pickr but I am not sure what I would use that for. I hope that some of my other techie friends will have some suggestions for this!
Retrievr was also really cool. I know my husband would enjoy using this tool to find pictures for backgrounds in our worship services. So many times you need a picture that is a specific color and this tool allow you to do that!
I need to spend more time with these tools and brainstorm some more ways I can use these them!

Thing 2: Library 2.0

I am in my second year as a school librarian. I finished my master's degree last year while working for the first time in my library. it wasn't unitl recently that I even felt like I had time to begin the process of understanding web 2.0.... I know, I am a librarian and should be on the leading edge! But unitl this year I was so unfamiliar that I was sinking. Now I am at least begininning to tread water!
Library 2.0, to me, is becoming relevant to our patrons. We live in a technology driven society and unless libraries keep up the fear that libraries may be replaced may come true. However, I feel if we can make technology work for us there is job security and a place for the fabulous resources that we have to offer. I love that I can easily collaborate with the librarians in my school district, state, and country through blogs, google documents, blackboard, etc. Not only can I help my patrons more I can help myself and save so much time!!!
Thank you to all of my fabulous library friends that I know personally and those that I "blog-stalk" who put their ingenious ideas on their blogs for us all to see!

Taking the Challenge: Thing 1

I am signing up for North Texas 23 things..... I can't wait to get started. Over the summer we will be working on 23 technologies that every librarian (or educator) should know!
Stay tuned....there will be more to come!